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“One sip and a rush of bitterness hit me. I was so hurt, how come something that smelled so succulent, be so bitter.” Tea is like a lot of things in life, and unfortunately I guess this is one of them:(

Haha, I agree. Nonetheless, this was still a great cup of tea. GM never disappoints… eh most of the time.

Not cool! Someone said they washed theirs 7 times before the lapsang souchong aroma was gone. Yet another reason I hate plastic.

I generally make flavored tea in my tea ball or my mesh basket. I wasn’t thinking this time around. It’s okay, I mean I’ll be receiving a sorapot from the steepster contest soon, whistles

OMG srsly, that Lapsang loved my IngenuiTEA so much it seeped into the plastic. I finally got the smell out, though.

Haha, yeah after a few steeps it was gone =D, bye bye bacon. I won’t miss you!

I had Lapsang Souchong for the first time a few weeks ago and it was just UGH YICK! I couldn’t choke down more than a few sips. I like my tea flavored, but apparently not as smoked meat.. LOL.

Haha, agreed. Meat and tea should not be mixed together. I can still feel it, argh. Must make something mild to rinse this nastiness out of my system.

Haha, once again, I reiterate that Lapsang Souchong is a love it or hate it proposition. I love curling up with a big mug of it.

Yep, I agree. It’s a hit or miss. There’s no in between.

Haha – oh no! I’m putting this one on my list of teas to try this weekend!

I am watching all of the GM-sampler testers jump this particular hurdle on the obstacle course with increasing fascination. I can’t decide yet if it’s curiosity or horror.

Ahhhhh! I’m actually laughing over here. It tastes like a cigarette! BLAH. My parents were yelling about the smell for the entire day.

I can’t wait to see what my friends think of it when I give them the sampler. What’s funny is one of my friends love Bacon! =D That should be interesting.

Yep, 30 sec. I love how Japanese greens all have different leaf amount/temp/water volume ratios.

I know! it’s insane, haha. Black tea 4-5 minutes, haha. Green tea… eh it varies. This one was so strong for 30 seconds! Must of been that extra green thing.

Matcha definitely adds flavor:)

Oh nooooo! Don’t think Adagio’s sencha is the best there is – it’s a nifty blend but there’s some really yummy – and pungent – stuff out there! Den does have some good ones (personally I love their fuka-midori) but I think I’ve been happier overall with Lupicia’s offerings. Have you tried any of Den’s loose yet or just the bag? Fingers crossed that your sencha experiences get better!

I haven’t tried the loose yet. I mean it gets a bit hairy making loose leaves at work, especially when I don’t even have hot water in the water cooler! I have to go to the kitchen and boil some water. Argh. I’ll probably try the other tea bag tomorrow and try the loose leaf on the weekend. I’m neglecting GM! Oh no!

I will anxiously wait until the weekend for your notes on the loose Den’s!

Ahhh, I’m a guinea pig! It’s okay, I enjoy trying green tea.

Not a guinea pig (well, not for me since I’ve tired and liked). I just want you to find wonders above Adagio’s sencha! Ooooh, and if you want pungency, shincha is usually really great for that. HUGE mouthfeel and wonderfulness going on with it!

It’s going to be a fun weekend of Green Tea! You just wait! I’m going to devour Den’s Tea sampler…… finally!

Ricky, Den’s sampler comes only with regular sencha teabag, they don’t have sencha with matcha in teabags at all.

And…. now I want to try this one too. Right now.

Dooooo it! We’re having a party. Lemme get teaplz while we’re at it! Let’s both spam her!

You steeped the leaves for an HOUR?! Damn, Ricky, that’s a LONG time!

And this is SO a flavored tea.

It depends, I think on whether you would call a tisane a tea or not. If you would, it’s blended. If you wouldn’t, it’s flavoured. :)
On the other hand you could brew ginger on its own, which you can’t do with for example fruit flavours and the like, so therefore it would be a blend regardless.

…It’s a flavoured blend. Yes.

Hey, in my defense that was the third infusion and I totally forgot it was sitting in the kitchen table. We have a flavor blended tea! Ahhh! You guys are going to classify the teas from now on.

This is on my top 2 to try from this sampler! An HR??? The thought of ginger steeping for an hr physically hurts my mouth:) And I’d go for blended since the leaves themselves aren’t actually flavored. That’s the difference for me.

Yeah, I think that hour steeping might of made the ginger too strong. The white tea flavor seems to have disappeared, but what’s left is an incredible sore throat ginger kick. Yack.

A guy drinking rose tea. I love it:)

I wasn’t planning to. This was on the bottom of my basket, well I tossed the basket aside and replaced it with a plastic carton. The basket was a bit too feminine =D and it didn’t go with my cardboard box aka cupboard. It messed with the feng shui or something. Kidding. Err, about the feng shui and not the basket. If GM didn’t include it in the sampler, I would of never had tried it.

Yay! You joined our little e-tasting!

And how dare you get your A&D DFTs before me!!! Of course, I haven’t checked the mail yet so maybe? Maybe?

YOU CAVED AS WELL!?!?! Haha, I bet teaplz secretly did too, but she’s spent so much she doesn’t want to tell us. UPS just left it on my front door. It’s NYC someone could of stolen it! They even left my front gate open, argh!

I totally caved! Seems like when I try to suspend tea buying to clean out my pantry, I end up buying more tea!

More companies just have to offer 1-2 cup samplers of all their tea selections like GM. That would make life easier.

Or more dangerous.

It’s okay, I’ll just steal your pantry afterward you make a purchase. On that note, which tea to have next!

I love the label on the Dragonwell – so awesome! ;)

I totes did not cave on the AD stuff. I caved on TeaGschwendner and Harney & Sons instead. EVIL.

Are we admiring the tea or the label ;D. Oh Andrews & Dunham, how you’ve done such a good job marketing. We all admire the labels, maybe a tad too much!

I bet they ran out of stock before you had a chance to purchase it =P. You can’t deceive me! Oh, did you purchase the dessert tea as well :D

I haven’t caved on the dessert tea… yet… >.> <.<

I hate you people.

Still a chance to get it before Christmas =D

Still haven’t tried your DFT yet, Ricky? I couldn’t manage to wait until the next morning, even with a headache.